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Arrest made in beating death of Port Jervis man
Times Herald Record (Middletown, NY) ^ | 11/11/14 | Heather Yakin

Posted on 11/11/2014 9:13:53 AM PST by Impala64ssa

GOSHEN – Most of Port Jervis and much of the Tri-State area knew Josef Kucher. A cobbler in the Old World tradition of his native Austria, the 77-year-old was a proud U.S. citizen and military veteran, a long-time presence in the downtown business district, an usher at St. Mary’s Church. He was, Port Jervis police Chief William Worden and Mayor Kelly Decker said Monday at a press conference to announce an arrest in his slaying, a fixture in the community, a good man. Josef Kucher's wife, Hannelore Kucher, spoke briefly on Monday at her home. "I have no words for this senseless killing. I'm devastated," she said. "My husband was going to retire, and we were looking forward to it." The whole family is grieving, she said. "Just to think of what he had to go through at the hands of this killer." Police announced on Monday that second-degree murder charges have been filed against 29-year-old Dennis McBee of Port Jervis in Kucher’s death. Police said the motive was robbery. Kucher, who was born in Austria in 1937, moved to Port Jervis in the late 1960s with his wife, Hannelore. He opened his own shop in Port Jervis in 1974, starting on Jersey Avenue and later moving to Front Street. Although he'd talked about retiring as long ago as 2000, the shop was still open. The Kuchers' oldest son, Joseph, was killed in 1995 by a drunk driver in Montague Township, N.J. Their younger son, Michael, lived in Port Jervis with his wife and their kids. Josef Kucher was found about 10:40 a.m. Friday inside his store, Kucher's Shoe Repair & Orthopedic. A customer found him bleeding from the face and head. The customer and the owner of a neighboring business attended to Kucher until Port Jervis Ambulance and police arrived. He died Saturday from his injuries. By then, an investigative team made up of Port Jervis and New York State Police and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office had, with the help of the community, identified McBee and tracked him down to a motel in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Wilkes-Barre police charged him with a violation of felony probation for a Pike County, Pa., forgery conviction. Port Jervis police interviewed him in Wilkes-Barre and filed a felony complaint in Port Jervis City Court charging him with second-degree murder. A warrant has been lodged with Luzerne County, Pa., Correctional Facility, where McBee is being held.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: beatingdeath; portjervis; thuglife; wilkesbarre
Video of Pt. Jervis PD press conference here. Hey, at least this punk didn't use a gun /extreme sarc. Too bad they couldn't give this "aspiring rapper who was just getting his life together planning to go to college and taking care of his baby mamas" POS the Michael Brown treatment. And since NY state doesn't have the balls to use capitol punishment, especially now that Andrew Cuomo aka il figlio del Sfaccim was re-elected. Here's hoping that at least, like the Flintstones, he'll have a "gay old time" in prison.
1 posted on 11/11/2014 9:13:53 AM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Murder suspect.

2 posted on 11/11/2014 9:32:30 AM PST by Ken H
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To: Impala64ssa

Yet the article refuses to identify in plain English that the perp is a black man. Even though there is a picture right there of him! There is an anti-white hatekill going on in America of incredible proportion commiserated by the feds, by local law enforcement, by the media. Who all keep trying to deny it, hide it, ignore it, play it down. Yeah right——all these attacks on whites by blacks are for “economic reasons”. No racist or hate crime basis for the motivation is EVER found.


3 posted on 11/11/2014 9:34:43 AM PST by 4Runner
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To: Impala64ssa

Sad story; any business with an unlocked door is a target. In Newark NJ there are Chinese restaurants with no seats; people come in, slide their money through a bulletproof glass window, take their food, and leave. Pizza delivery is non-existent in the worst areas.

After watching membership fall over the years, I’ve noticed a number of people are going back to private clubs like Elks and such; they have no interest in dealing with an “unscreened” public in regular bars.


4 posted on 11/11/2014 9:37:02 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Ken H

“If I had a son he would look like ....”


5 posted on 11/11/2014 9:37:10 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (I'M WITH CRUZ!)
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To: Ken H

Al Sharpton to the courtesy phone.


6 posted on 11/11/2014 9:49:36 AM PST by Gamecock (USA, Ret. 27 years.)
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To: kearnyirish2
In Newark NJ...

When Inwas going to school in Newark, sometimes on my way home late at night I would stop at the "Black Shack" on Elizabeth Avenue. There was bulletproof glass across the counter in front of the cashiers... the drive through window had an ingenious turntable made of bulletproof glass as well.

Looks like they have modernized the store recently... that location has had a White Castle for like 85 years or something like that.


7 posted on 11/11/2014 10:06:58 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: 4Runner
Yet another decent white died to provide amusement for a Negro.

Whites must begin to realize realize that they are in the process of being conquered, by the "Third World" in the very country whites founded and governed until 2008 AD.

Masters can be rough, I refer you to the Spartan masters and Helot serfs.

Instead of governing whites now focus upon eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating the bowels, snoring and obtaining from time to time free tickets to "The Games." This has consequences; as the devotee of such a philosophy must learn to receive insult, assault and discrimination in employment and education from those who are intent upon governing and the transfer of wealth.

"Woe to the conquered!" What the Gaul said to the Roman when the Gauls were removing Roman property circa 390 B.C.

8 posted on 11/11/2014 10:10:45 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Ken H

What a surprise... not.


9 posted on 11/11/2014 10:20:45 AM PST by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: Ken H

Another son of Obunghole.


10 posted on 11/11/2014 10:38:18 AM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Ken H

I’m sure Holder’s all over this... /s


11 posted on 11/11/2014 10:51:29 AM PST by GOPJ ( MSNBC is left-wing radio with pictures. CNN's anchors are mostly tired, left-wing & smug.. -Nolte)
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To: Impala64ssa

Every day. Every frikkin’ day ... another feral animal murders or beats a white ...

There is a war going on, it’s just that whites haven’t figured it out ...yet.

Even God won’t be able to help blacks in this country when whites becomes as race aware and race-centered as blacks already are.

They deserve everything that is coming.


12 posted on 11/11/2014 11:39:25 AM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Rodamala

If that is the White Castle on Broadway, a friend was in there one night when a lunatic “donkey-kicked” a female patron awaiting her order. He grabbed the counter, jumped up, and kicked her in the face with both feet.

She didn’t wait for her food...


13 posted on 11/11/2014 12:08:15 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: spodefly
Sooner = Better

/.02

14 posted on 11/11/2014 3:05:44 PM PST by tomkat (proud infidel)
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To: Impala64ssa

Prayers for the family.

Hope the perp gets what he REALLY deserves.


15 posted on 11/15/2014 9:31:50 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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